Bernanke (like Greenspan and Volcker) has clearly demonstrated time and again that intellectualism has trumped all other factors in his decision-making.

You wouldn’t even know he was a Republican from his finely-tuned technocratic way of ruling, his detailed and nuanced manner of reasoning, his embrace of the evidence for both Keynesianism and Monetarism,…really his way of looking at the world in shades of gray rather than the simplistic black and white modes of thinking championed by the Palin’s, the George W. Bush’s, and most other Republicans leaders today.

He is probably my favorite Republican in America today–one of the few dispassionate, thinking ones left.